THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
Photograph by Burnell Poole
U.S.S.
"ARIZONA' AT SEA
The business end of this great American battleship, coming head on, is a formidable
sight; broad of beam, bristling with guns, and manned by a thousand of the bravest of the
brave, and every mother's son of them trained for his work.
These naval pioneers of the past
whether charting the waters of China
and securing the treaty with Japan, like
Perry; discovering the Antarctic Conti
nent and contributing more to the world's
knowledge of geography than any other
man, like Wilkes; or making navigation a
science, forecasting the weather, master
ing the mysteries of the winds and cur
rents, uncovering the knowledge of ocean
meteorology; and making the phenomena
of the Gulf Stream known to us, like
Maury-these are the types of men who
will be reincarnated in the adventurous
youth of the golden days of discovery
that challenge the intrepid and ambitious,
and who, when this war is over, will be
satisfied with no rest until all the secret
places are flooded with the light, and all
cheerless homes blessed with the com
forts of our newer and better civiliza
tion.
321